We are now four years past the start of the 2020 pandemic. I kept some good habits and at least one bad habit. Like everyone else, I embraced the idea of good handwashing lasting at least 20 seconds.

As pediatric house staff, my co-residents and I developed a keen ability to provide skillful and compassionate care under stressful conditions. This included managing high patient volumes, treating ...

Many of you are all too familiar with this routine: You get home late from work hungry and tired, and you whip up a quick dinner and scarf it down before you've even had time to pick out which Netflix ...

Mindful Eating, 101. The concept of mindful eating can seem like a license to eat whatever you want. But proponents of this style of diet say perceiving it in that way could be an indication that a ...

I learned a lot of life-changing mindfulness practices in a monastery from Burmese teaching monks. But what I'm about to share with you in this blog wasn't one of them. Holidays are that fabulous food ...

Figuring out what to eat is complicated. What are you in the mood for? What do other people in your household want? What can you afford? What do you have time to prepare? Add the ambient pressure of a ...

The holidays have come and gone again, and many of us are probably still thinking about just how much we indulged this season. “When it came to eating, how did this past holiday season treat you?

Snack fever sets in — do you succumb, or shake it off? For those who can’t seem to quit noshing on junk, experts say they have just the thing to break the cycle — a practice known as mindful eating.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- While many of us would like to eat more mindfully, it is often easier said than put into practice. That can be especially true around the holidays, with the temptation to overeat your ...